Chapter 76:Provoker vs Assassin

If looks could kill, Adryan would have turned to ash from how hard Robert was glaring at him.

Robert now had a death expression as he held his dagger in his gloved hand and the redhead just looked at this with a small smile hiding any other feelings than calm.

'That glove.... he must have bought at the party a few weeks ago' Adryan could still vividly remember that night,the revolver and glove were sold and it had never left his mind,mostly because of the price.

"I didn't know you were so good at running Robert" aiming at the blonde Adryan fired a shot which the blonde dodged by jumping to the side.

"You must have been a dancer the way you jump over everything just like a balerina" firing another bullet, the redhead did not stop talking, always trying to get into Robert's head with his provocation, but despite how he could see that the blonde was getting more and more furious, he did not make another mistake.

Judging by Robert's rather pale skin and how he seemed to be sweating quite a bit, Adryan calculated that the blonde could only use the paper figurine exchange one more time.

Now he just had to take out Robert's second life before he could finish him off.

So, gripping the revolver tightly, the redhead grabbed a chair with his left hand before throwing it towards Robert who was not expecting this strange movement.

Giving another jump to avoid the chair, the blond lost sight of the redhead causing his pupils to shrink so without hesitation the guy snapped his fingers, being enveloped by a flame and barely managing to dodge two shots from Adryan who had come out of the shadows from Robert's left side after using Shadow Leap.

Robert appeared a few meters from where he was originally and he rushed towards Adryan taking advantage of the short distance.

Giving a sharp thrust to Adryan's chest, Adryan deflected the attack with his left wrist before kicking Robert's right knee causing him to kneel and placing the revolver to his forehead.Adryan fired two quick shots but once again Robert transformed into a paper figurine and appeared a few meters from where he was.

"Don't you learn that it's a bad idea to go hand in hand when you don't even know how to touch yourself" Robert's face was pure fury but he was extremely pale while Adryan was somewhat agitated but could still fight.

Unlike Robert who was using his artifact non-stop, Adryan had only used his 2 times not wasting his spirituality and being a higher sequence he still had juice in the tank, unlike Robert who seemed very sick and showed symptoms of low spirituality.

The whole great hall was in ruins due to the great fight that the officials were having with the witches but it seemed that they were even, neither being able to land a good blow on the other.

It seemed that the 2 of the 4 witches were using some extraordinary artifact that was managing to suppress the Punishers not allowing them to show more strength.

The fight between Grievius and Selena just kept escalating and due to the flames from it the place started to catch fire, a part of the wall had already been filled with fire.

But while all this was going on, Adryan just didn't know why the reinforcements hadn't arrived.

How was it possible that in the middle of one of the richest areas of Backlund being so close to the MI9 offices no one had come already?.

This was already too exaggerated and showed that the situation was much worse than originally seen.

'Are they using some grade 1 artifact in order to prevent the disturbance here from attracting attention?'

That would be a very good reason to explain why no one had managed to escape and ask for help but he felt that there was something else involved in this.

But before he could continue thinking about what the redhead was going through, he saw how Robert ran towards a group of people who were hiding in a corner behind some tables.

"COWARD COME BACK HERE" Adryan yelled as he went in pursuit of Robert who had gotten way ahead of him.

Pointing his revolver, Adryan thought about shooting but seeing the people he could hit if he missed or if Robert dodge, the redhead could only grunt as he ran faster trying to catch up to the blond.

Behind the tables before Adryan managed to kill Robert's second life...

"Charles, what is happening" a pregnant woman was crying loudly in the arms of the aforementioned who was trying to comfort her.

"Calm down love breathe everything will be fine" Charles tries the best he could but he himself was very scared but tried to hide it.

Looking around he managed to see how Isaac was hugging his wife in a corner while Viktor was sitting on the floor in a catatonic state unable to process what was happening.

A hand gripped his tightly and Charles looked at his wife who was trembling with teary eyes.

"I don't want to die, Charles" was what she said with teary eyes as she placed her hand on her stomach.

"Everything is going to be fine, everything is going to be fine..." This was the only way Charles could think of to calm his wife down.

But before he could continue consoling his wife, another series of shots rang out and shortly after the cry of a very familiar voice.

"COWARD COME BACK HERE"

"Adryan?"

Hearing the voice, Charles poked his head in slightly to see what was going on.

I manage to see how the secretary Robert was with a dagger in his hand while being chased by Adryan who was still a little behind.

He could see the redhead's eyes widen when he saw him and he yelled at him as he tried to catch up with Robert.

"CHARLES STAY AWAY FROM ROBERT"